Stevenote Coverage: The Winners

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Stevenote Coverage: The Winners

There's some buzz on the Mac web about the huge traffic enjoyed by Macrumors during its live coverage of Steve Jobs' keynote speech last week. There are rumors that the site enjoyed 100 million page views.

But as Macrumors says itself, its Macrumorslive site – which hosted the keynote coverage – saw 100 million hits during the keynote, not page views. Hits are a measure of all the different elements served on a page – things like graphics, stylesheets and Javascript files, etc.

The more important numbers are the number of page views and the number of unique visitors. Macrumorslive had about 3.3 million page views and about 400,000 unique readers.

This is very good traffic for a medium-sized site – especially in just five hours – but the big winner for keynote coverage was Engadget, followed by Gizmodo, according to Alexa (Type in Engadget.com and Gizmodo.com in the "Compare Sites" box below the graph to see the relative traffic).